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197937989NY: Viking 1979. First Edition. Leonard Lubin. Horizontal 8vo pp. 55. Illustrated by Leonard Lubin. A nice copy in little scuffed and chipped dj. A children's book. Viking unknown books
1929001190New York: The Macmillan Company 1929. Cloth is faded to tan on spine and corners. Erasure marks at top of front free endpaper. Illustrated by PAMELA BIANCO. Frontispiece and three double-page illustrations in color. Additional full-page black and white plates. 58pp. First Edition. Gray Cloth. Minor Edge Wear./Lightly Chipped Price-Clipped. Octavo. The Macmillan Company Hardcover books
1899140938501London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet by no means assumed to be authentic. Leonard Smithers unknown books
1898303630London Leonard Smithers 1898. 1898. Third edition so stated. 8vo. Half white over purple linen gilt stamped spine upper cover with gilt stamped floral design by Charles Ricketts uncut. Very good-fine. 31 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 brown morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Number 69 of 99 copies printed March 4 1898 signed by Wilde in black ink on limitation page with characteristic paraph to the final "e." Mason #374. Bookplate of Chauncey Lawrence Williams on the front free endpaper and a signed pencil notation by Paul Lemperly noting he received the book from Williams. Williams 1872-1924 former member of Way and Williams publishers and the F.W. Dodge Corp. With his memorial booklet laid in loose. Lemperly 1858-1939 noted American book collector. Signed by Authors. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Leonard Smithers, 1898. hardcover books
189828830London: Leonard Smithers 1898. First edition one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. Yellow-brown boards with white cloth spine. Usual discoloration to the endpapers but a fine copy. "Ed. Edmonds / 15. Febry. 1898" signature on first blank page. <br/><br/> Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1902WRCLIT61906Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1902. Boards paper labels. Spine label a bit tanned otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book. One of 550 numbered copies. The limitation page bears a facsimile of Wilde's signature. One of the several early U.S. printings virtually all unauthorized. The first U.S. edition was published by Benjamin Tucker in 1899. Alfred Bartlett hardcover books
189954608NY: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. Early US edition. 44 pp. Small tear to the fore-edge of one leaf else very good plus in two part gilt-stamped cloth with darkened spine. NY: Benj. R. Tucker, hardcover books
199894398North Pomfret:: Trafalgar Square Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1570761035 . Wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. First edition thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket.; 37 pages . Trafalgar Square Publishing, hardcover books
1937Embry 166588Heritage Press 1937. First printing thus. Bookplate else fine in fine faintly rubbed slipcase. Illus. by Zhenya Gay. Gray leatherette. Heritage Press, 1937. First printing thus. hardcover books
1937Embry 165570Heritage Press 1937. First printing thus. Fine in very good to near fine slipcase with two seams with very short tears. Illus. by Zhenya Gay. Gray leatherette. Heritage Press, 1937. First printing thus. hardcover books
1919Embry 164723Thomas B. Mosher 1919. Fine in near fine publisher's tissue jacket and near fine but toned publisher's slipcase. Gray boards. Thomas B. Mosher, 1919. hardcover books
1928Embry 147331E. P. Dutton 1928. First printing thus. Glue remnants from bookplate removal to front pastedown rubbing to corners and with some light soiling and marks to cloth very good in nicely crafted custom slipcase. Illus. by John Vassos. Black cloth-backed gray boards. E. P. Dutton, 1928. First printing thus. hardcover books
1930017128New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1930. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Early reprint edition. Octavo 8vo. 124 pages. Original hardcover binding; cloth spine is lightly to moderately rubbed on the extremities. The blue-grey paper-covered boards are slightly sunned at the extremities and slightly to moderately shelfworn along the edges mostly to the corners. No dustjacket. Illustrated by John Vassos. The text is clean and unmarked. A 1930 reprint of the 1928 first edition. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Hardcover books
190733072Boston: Boston Evening Transcript 1907. Offprint. 12mo 18.5cm.; decorative staplebound card wrappers; 251-285pp. Wrappers somewhat toned and dust-soiled smalll faint dampstain to upper wrapper else Very Good and sound. This state not described by Horodisch who notes two additional cover states: "Read the Greatest Tragical Poem in Literature The Ballad of Reading Gaol By Oscar Wilde" and another with a Chicago Holdaway imprint. Offprint from Vol. 13 of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Boston Evening Transcript unknown books
1898109921Slim 8vo. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim 8vo 4. 31ff. Printed on hand-made paper on one side of the page only. Original quarter white buckram mustard boards backstrip lettered in gilt a good copy slightly soiled and backstrip browned. § First edition one of 800 copies on handmade paper. This controversial poem was written by Wilde under the pseudonym of the number he was given in prison. It includes some of Wilde’s most famous lines: “each man kills the thing he lovesâ€; “some love too little some too long some sell while others buyâ€; “every prison that men build is built with bricks of shameâ€. Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1898282548London: Smithers 1898. First. hardcover. very good. Slim 8vo mustard cloth backed in white with gilt lettering. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 800 copies printed on hand-made paper on one side only. Inscribed on title page; "I.O. from F.A.S. Guilsborough Hall." A very good copy with some bubbling of the cloth and light soil. Irene Osgood later the wife of R.H. Sherard author of the life of Oscar Wilde was a novelist. This book was given to her by Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham Preserved in an attractive1/4 leather slipcase with an elaborately gilt spine.<br/><br/> Smithers unknown books
189915144JNew York: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. First American Edition. Three pirated editions of Wilde’s classic poem were issued in America in 1899 the Tucker edition. precedes the other two and is the True First American Edition. Issued in paper wrappers and cloth this copy is the rare hardbound state. Gilt-stamped blue cloth with white cloth spine. Hinges cracked. Some minor foxing to the preliminaries at little darkening at spine very good. Rare. Benj. R. Tucker hardcover books
18999014015London: Leonard Smithers 1899. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Good condition. One of 2000 copies. Bound in publisher's original quarter tan and orange cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Uncut. First edition to use Wilde's name. Last authorized edition issued by Smithers. Binding has seperated at page 1 but still intact. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. Some minor soiling to the covers. <br/><br/> Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1928WN65225New York: E.P. Dutton 1928. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper covered boards with gilt and black emblem on upper board. Plain glassine jacket. Full page tissue guarded Vassos black and white images. A forceful presentation. First Thus. Cloth Backed Paper Covered Boa. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by John Vassos. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. E.P. Dutton books
189933071New York: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. Second American Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; publisher's two-toned cloth white over blue upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt unadorned spine; 844pp. Some minor shelf wear white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text old ink spot affecting first few leaves else interior fine. Very Good and sound overall. Often considered to be the first American edition this imprint is actually preceded by the Brentano's ca. 1898 edition. This edition was published in two states one in which the text appears on rectos only the second including this copy printed on rectos and versos: "Both editions that printed on one side and that printed on both sides are from the same type. It is therefore clear that they are not.two independent editions but the one-side issue constitutes merely a kind of de-luxe variety while the two-sided is a cheaper popular version of the same edition" HORODISCH pp. 76-77. <br/><br/>Issued by Benjamin R. Tucker the noted anarchist publisher and editor of the journal Liberty in which Tucker published the essay "The Criminal Jailers of Oscar Wilde" in 1895. Tucker and Emma Goldman were two of the few Americans to publicly defend Wilde during his trial George Haggerty Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures 2013 p. 52. Benj. R. Tucker unknown books
1930221573New York: E. P. Dutton 1930. Illustrated with "conceptions" by John Vassos. 124pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in quarter black cloth and paper covered boards. Fine in almost fine dust jacket. Vassos John. Illustrated with "conceptions" by John Vassos. 124pp. 1 vols. 8vo. E. P. Dutton unknown books
1928300412New York: Dutton 1928. hardcover. very good-. Vassos. 16 illustrated plates by John Vassos. Small 4to black cloth backed blue boards. New York: Dutton 1928. First Edition with these illustrations. Tape residue on front board and tape repairs to front end paper. No dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front end papers.<br/><br/> Dutton unknown books
18997568London: Leonard Smithers 1899. Octavo ff 31 62 pp uncut deckled edges. Unauthorized or pirated edition by the printer of the original first edition . The last edition that was authorized by Wilde for Smithers to print was dated 1899 and the numerous later unauthorized editions continued to bear that date. The title page gives Oscar Wilde's name in brackets as well as the pseudonym C.3.3 his cell number at the jail. Mason's bibliography of Wilde identifies this as the 8th printing p. 378. White cloth over mustard colored boards. Minor foxing to endpapers text block unaffected. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1930295612New York: Dutton 1930. hardcover. fine. Black and white frontispiece numerous illustrations by John Vassos. 124pp. slim 8vo handsomely rebound in 1/2 burgundy morocco burgundy cloth. New York: Dutton 1930. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Dutton unknown books
1928164757New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1928. Hardcover. VG/G significant remnants of dust jacket remaining. Blue boards with black and gold stamped design and black spine. Black blue and gold dust jacket. 124 pp. Illustrations. Poetry by Oscar Wilde illustrations by John Vassos. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books